The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 52
Roman conquest,and were called Typhonia orMammeisi, according as theywere employed. Both were sup-plementary chapels to larger tem-ples. The first were dedicated toTyphon, the personification ofevil, probably in a spirit of re-ligious hedging. The Mammeisichapels, on the other hand, werevowed to… … Fig. 15.—Column andcapital at Denderah. 5o EGYPT AND NUBIA. Architecturally, the Typhonia and Mammeisi muchmbled one another, but with the essential differ-ence thai whereas Typhonia were small adaptationsol the larger Egyptian houses of worship, Mammeisiwere analogous to the peripteral temples of…
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